Thursday, April 22, 2010

Everyone in Uniform

The "Smoke and Mirror" Tour begins in earnest 29 April as the order came down for all Tact and Gang personnel to be in uniform until further notice.

We've heard the 100 person Summer Strike Force or whatever it's called is only taking one officer per district? The remainder of the personnel will be stripped from MSF and TRU, the detail lasts 90 days, and you get zero weekends off the entire summer?

This sounds like a well thought out plan that was carefully considered and crafted after numerous meetings, planning sessions and maybe even a study or two, rather than reeking of desperation and a sense of hopelessness as it finally comes to the attention of everyone involved that we have no manpower to speak of and aren't about to have any anytime soon.

So how do these officers get chosen? They can't pull you from your assigned district and force you to work elsewhere can they? Do you still report for roll call in your assigned district and then go somewhere else? Help me out here.

Omg, this is too funny! All these guys that thought their shit didn't stink b/c they're in a unit now are stuck working in the worst areas of the city for the whole summer!!! ahahhaha.You know how many career inside do nothings have turtle heads right now.

This is GREAT news! I'm on tact and we have no problem wearing the uniform. It just means we don't have to play the "heads game" as much, giving the bosses their silly stats. No more surveillance, SW's, secret squirl missions, riding around in covert cars, etc, etc. We are only the visibility police and that's just fine. We have no problem playing their "smoke and mirrors" game. I've been on the job for nearly 15 years and have never seen things so silly as they are now. What a DUMB department!!

With the exception of just a few units listed, every one is a place that pretty much requires a phone call to get to. Therefore, the suckasses in those respective units have no choice but to bend over and take it in the balloon-knot dry, or run the risk of making waves and getting bounced from their hiding spots.

Only problem is that a lot of less-than-5 y.o.j., never-been-the-police and career-long house mice are going to be thrown into shit they've never seen or haven't seen for a long time...if their clout doesn't make that magic, last minute phone call to save their pathetic asses.

And any chump that volunteers for this should be beaten mercilessly.

Yeah, no weekends off the entire summer? Sure, boss, sign me right up!

And just so the dopes that partake in this latest brainfart are aware, each city gas location will also have a 55 gallon drum of Kool-Aid chilled and waiting for you dummies. It'll be located between the drum of oil and the drum of windshield solvent. I suggest you highlight the filling locations in your FOP book - it's going to be a hot summer and you'll be plenty thirsty.

Where's the detail of personnel from the Superintendent's Office, Policy Group and various other units inside 35th and Michigan. I guess its too scary for them. If the neighborhoods they will be in is to frightening for J-FLED, I guess its to scary for the people who work underneath him.

Let me correct you on some misinformation. There is no special summer force. You have the manpower numbers correct however, 50 will be detailed to TRU and 50 to MSF. These people will work 10 hour days and have days off per their assigned DOG. A notice came out yesterday morning requesting sergeants for this detail and it is spelled out that they will be detailed to either MSF or TRU.

Anonymous said... Who's the lucky group that gets to work with the IAD guys?

The academy only gives up 5 coppers? There's no one in the academy. They can spear at least 10.

And if HQ can spear 20% for Closed Market, then they should be able to give 20% permanently to the secrete unit.

4/22/2010 12:27:00 AM

Interesting that you state the academy is empty? Other than 150 recruits, the academy is empty. Patrol should cancel all inservice classes then the academy could spare 5 bodies. Maybe they could use the recruits for the summer? Light and limited duty PO's might have to actually work to make up for this detail.

Where's the detail of personnel from the Superintendent's Office, Policy Group and various other units inside 35th and Michigan. I guess its too scary for them. If the neighborhoods they will be in is to frightening for J-FLED, I guess its to scary for the people who work underneath him.

4/22/2010 02:26:00 AM

Did you even bother to look at the order? It's spelled out pretty clearly genius.

Can you imagine having to fill Summer Mobile, Gangs, SOS, the Tough Squad or any of the old Units by reverse seniority? Does any one person down at the building see a problem here? Anybody want to let the Emperor know he has no clothes?

You have hundreds of P.O.s in narcotics. Take a look at what they really accomplish. Fill the Beat cars! It is simple.

You can bet on those POs coming from the units being aggressive go getters, I know I'll feel safe in 7 knowing they have m back.

4/22/2010 12:05:00 AM EVER CONSIDER THAT THE SAME BEAT CAR SEAT YOUR CURRENTLY WARMING THE UNIT PERSONNEL HAVE ALREADY DONE THEIR TIME. I CAN'T WAIT WHEN YOU TOO GROW TIRED OF PATROL & ARE LOOKING FOR A CHANGE & START BEGGING TO GET INTO A UNIT. SO UNTIL THEN, POUR YOURSELF A CUP OF STFU

No weekends off the whole summer? day off groups can change at any time during the detail? sounds like something people will stand in line for!!

4/22/2010 01:43:00 AM THEY SURE AS HELL WILL, THEY'RE ALREADY STANDING IN LINE FOR A FRESH HIGH& TIGHT, POLISHING THE M4 & THEIR BOOTS & BUYING A HIP HOLSTER FOR THE TASER, THAT YOU CAN BE SURE. THIS DEPARTENT HAS BECOME TACKLEBERRY CENTRAL, LOOK AROUND

012 still has two P.O's and a Sgt. working in the commanders office. Also, plenty of full duty officers in Caps and Neighborhood Relations offices. Why, there is even an officer whose main job is to decorate various bulletin boards in the district!!! I am sure those "jobs" will still be secure and they will take from the watches - which are already dangerously short!!!

Let me correct you on some misinformation. There is no special summer force. You have the manpower numbers correct however, 50 will be detailed to TRU and 50 to MSF. These people will work 10 hour days and have days off per their assigned DOG. A notice came out yesterday morning requesting sergeants for this detail and it is spelled out that they will be detailed to either MSF or TRU.

Who the hell would volunteer for that crap? leave your assigned district and watch for that? there aren't enough people stuck on mids in the ghetto to volunteer for this crap. Can you say reverse seniority....lol

they are taking guys from narcotics and gang intel and other units that are one the streets already. clear out 35 street first. take people from the awards committee, they dont do their job anyway. it take two years to get a award approved.

So how do these officers get chosen? They can't pull you from your assigned district and force you to work elsewhere can they? Do you still report for roll call in your assigned district and then go somewhere else? Help me out here.

Typically by volunteers and then reverse seniority if there are no volunteers. And I'm sure you would go somewhre else. They'll let you know where to report.

Isn't that what msf and tru were already for? Pulling more people does nothing! Especially if you're forcing people to go there that don't want to be there, what another stupid idea! Masters! Gorgeous Georges!

LEt me get this right.We are pulling 10 from mass transit and 12total from both airports ,units that are very short in manpower and are targets for terrorism and nothing from the ivory towers .This after we are sent for tara training and TOSTOP classes telling us how something is going to happen very soon. Being that this will most likely be done by reverse senioraty ur going to have young p.o s pissed off that they will now give u nothing for the rest of their career.LETS ALL WATCH THE CITY BURN DOWN THIS SUMMER.

the fact that they are looking for sgts for this detail in patrol is a joke--- we are short sgt's in patrol and have none to give--- what are you going to do at the district level, have one sgt logging 30-40 cars a night.... no field lt. either because he is the w/c.... the tac guys were in uniform all last summer too so no big deal.... look at the big picture, the bosses are shuffling everything around in a vain attempt to survive the summer--- place the blame squarely where it belongs, on the greasy mic who is holding the purse strings, he knows we are woefully short and his superintendent has even been quoted in the media as saying that he is concerned about a massive retirement push this year severely impacting manpower requirements across the board.... be safe and back each other up, we are all we have.....

I guess it is time to go light duty! I have watched other officers in my unit change their status to light duty. Now I can understand why. Sorry to say, but my family and children must come first. Child care issues have a priority.

I'd just disband that new Invite Only Super Secret Unit 701 K-9 Clout kid unit. You know the one that you didn't know about,and DOESN'T have any dogs(except for the unsupervised political hacks working 5 hr days and taking 2 1/2 hr lunches). We by the way, according to one of their most arrogant members are all just "bitches".

You cannot take airport personnel. They are paid from the aviation budget. They also cannot take any officer recognized (listed) as school or CHA officers because they are paid from non-police coffers.

A guy pulled up the seniority list for airport north. reverse seniority means the guys will have 7-15 years on and will be sent against their will to some shithole. While I do find it amusing it is bittersweet because it just goes to show you that the city can fuck with you on the whim of any idiot gold star with a "great idea".

I dont want 10 hr days. The city is 4 days on and 2 day off. Why should I be forced to work 10 hr. days. Where is the union? Smoke & mirrors with less men, then why have 3 and 4 days off? Isnt that what you get with 10 hr days?

I would select the remedy The Department proposed that there be certain performance-based criteria for eligibility for the officers in Title Code 9161, specifically: 1. Issuance of five parking citations in 30 days; 2. Issuance of five moving citations in 30 days; 3. Acquisition of five contact cards in 30 days; 4. Three physical arrests within 30 days; 5. Two curfew and/or truancy activities within 30 days.

The Department further asserted that to be eligible to participate in the overtime opportunities that only three of the five categories need be met; it did not matter how the three minimum requirements were met (i.e., whether the officers are on or off duty or on special employment); seniority will be followed in the actual assignments with the Department maintaining the right to limit the number of assignments per month per officer and other reasonable work rules

This is GREAT news! I'm on tact and we have no problem wearing the uniform. It just means we don't have to play the "heads game" as much, giving the bosses their silly stats. No more surveillance, SW's, secret squirl missions, riding around in covert cars, etc, etc. We are only the visibility police and that's just fine. We have no problem playing their "smoke and mirrors" game. I've been on the job for nearly 15 years and have never seen things so silly as they are now. What a DUMB department!!

4/22/2010 12:26:00 AM

You sir are hitting this dead nuts. Experience counts, and you sir are in the know.

In response to 7-15years and being sent to the safe summer mission from airport north. Call your chinamen who sent you to the airport. If you didn't have one it would have taken you 20 plus years to BID there. When you return in the fall ,you will have earned some respect from the old timers and you will understand why we have the BID process.Stay safe young man!

012 still has two P.O's and a Sgt. working in the commanders office. Also, plenty of full duty officers in Caps and Neighborhood Relations offices. Why, there is even an officer whose main job is to decorate various bulletin boards in the district!!! I am sure those "jobs" will still be secure and they will take from the watches - which are already dangerously short!!!

4/22/2010 08:39:00 AM

Didn't they ship the bulletin board guy to the academy? He's doing the bulletins over there now I thought.

Only if you are in a "secrete" unit. It's made up of those with really bad BO and others that have various substances that flow from their orifices. When responding to a 10-1 they secrete odors and substances to repel the offenders.

Uh-oh... all the airport guys are losing their minds thinking that they are actually going to have to go on the streets and work the ghettos. Good, you guys need a little reality check of the shit that gets fed to us day in and day out.

The Summer unit will not have cars! It will be 10 hour foot patrol with 1/2 hour for lunch. Ha ha you say? It's completely true. There are no cars for this deployment and they can't pull cars from districts because they they do not want to admit that there are no officers working in the districts.

Bus Sergeants will drop off and pick up just like CHA special employment.

BUT THEY DO WRITE AN AWFUL LOT OF TICKETS. TO KEEP THOSE NICE QUIET SPOTS.

Obviously you have NO idea what you are talking about, we have plenty of people at the schools everyday, ever heard of Crane or Juarez? Best Practice? they go up for grabs constantly, they make arrests at Crane daily.....

One things for sure. when i'm in uniform i wont do shit. they can dump me if they want.

Whats wrong sweetheart you can't make an arrest in uniform? you probably don't do shit in cd either... pussy primadonnas crack me up, hey they know who you are in your backwards hat, black vest and cargo pants tough guy...

the woeord is that 50 are going M.S.F and 50 T.R.U....T.R.U will be "attacking" Area's 1 & 2 with M.S.F "attacking" Area's 4 & 5......it is volunteer but i'm sure people will go for it, can u say reverse senoirity

Why in heaven's name would anyone want to do police work, based on the new contract, boss'es that care only for themselves, merit promotions, J-feds obviously inability to lead the dept., our pension being underfunded, the mayor we have, the aldercreatures we have, public distrust. Only do what you got to do. Please advise future and/or potential people who are thinking of becoming the police to stay in school or to continue their education to get a decent job and get out of cook county. There has to be a better place out there to live and work other than chicago.

Anonymous said...I'd just disband that new Invite Only Super Secret Unit 701 K-9 Clout kid unit. You know the one that you didn't know about,and DOESN'T have any dogs(except for the unsupervised political hacks working 5 hr days and taking 2 1/2 hr lunches). We by the way, according to one of their most arrogant members are all just "bitches".

4/22/2010 05:19:00 PMu must be one of the crybabies in mass transit . They posted wneh the test was for tsa bomb dogs(unit704)so either u were toooo stupid to take it or didn t want the job. And u have to go for the 2 mnth training in texas before u get a dog. If u look on the sheets u will see 6 names on 2nd wtch and 4 on 3rd so there are dogs on the street. And i m sure ur next BITCH is that most of the dog guy s are white or hispanic...hmmmm sems to happen after every test given doesn t it.

This ridiculous plan sounds great ha ha. Even the watch commander was laughing at roll call today about it. She stated good luck to those with no seniority because they will be forced to go by reverse seniority. Good strategy J-Fed and your fucked up 2 year policy group. RETARDS

BUT THEY DO WRITE AN AWFUL LOT OF TICKETS. TO KEEP THOSE NICE QUIET SPOTS.

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH be quiet. Anyway crane and every other school in 012 has cars assigned to them. Sometimes as many as 7 police cars outside crane. Dont right stuff if you dont know for sure. 012 district hamster boooyaaahhh

Anonymous said...Uh-oh... all the airport guys are losing their minds thinking that they are actually going to have to go on the streets and work the ghettos. Good, you guys need a little reality check of the shit that gets fed to us day in and day out.

4/23/2010 12:50:00 PMwhat is it with u guys that think people at the airports aren t the real police.Most of the guys have over 25 yrs which means they were the police when 14th dist was the wild west not the yuppie hood that it is now.Even 24 was busy back in the day when howard st. was a piss hole. So don t act like the police work u do now is so special.A lot of those guys have earned the right to take it easy before they retire.So stop the bitching because time does fly and u will be in their shoes soon enough

In response to 7-15years and being sent to the safe summer mission from airport north. Call your chinamen who sent you to the airport. If you didn't have one it would have taken you 20 plus years to BID there. When you return in the fall ,you will have earned some respect from the old timers and you will understand why we have the BID process.Stay safe young man!

You will never see anyone from the airport go. Not with Mauer blasting the security out there. The airlines pay for the police and DOA officers. The powers that be just screwed up again. They will recind it.

If you pass frozen Kool-Aid around to all the 300,000 gang members in the city, they will take a long time to drink it. It will cause brain freeze and make them think it is cold out. In conclusion, crime will return to winter stats ang gang activity will be interupted. I have noticed that every time slurpees are on sale there are zero homicides.

They should take the big mirrored bean and have smoke come out around it. That would be sooooooo confusing. They can put the same bright flashing lights from the red light cameras around it. Dude that would cause so many pee tests we would be short of manpower.

Most of the guys and girls at the airport don't have 25 years , but a phone call. Thats what it took to get out there and it got so bad that at one time there were no bids , but all phone calls that the FOP had to go to arbitration to get the city to agree to the 50-50 bid/20% that is currently in affect As a matter of fact the guy that worked for the Homeless as a Dept Director that was on leave from the CPD was out there with Acosta when he had like two years on

Anonymous said...Most of the guys and girls at the airport don't have 25 years , but a phone call. Thats what it took to get out there and it got so bad that at one time there were no bids , but all phone calls that the FOP had to go to arbitration to get the city to agree to the 50-50 bid/20% that is currently in affect As a matter of fact the guy that worked for the Homeless as a Dept Director that was on leave from the CPD was out there with Acosta when he had like two years on

4/24/2010 01:21:00 AM 1st of all there were a bunch of 25 plus ofc.but most have retired in the last 4 yrs and since the city has not replaced them with openings the unit is a lil younger and also short about 70 coppers. AND HOW DOES 50/50 HELP when in 80/20 the 20% is management not bid position.So in affect the city gets more phone call people to put in the airport. I m sure the FOP didn t want that to happen. Ur not going to have any major openings until the city begins to hire , fill the dist. so then they could have openings for units.Mass transit had openings last yr in which it took over 20 yrs to get in on the bid and 11 came over from dist.

Anonymous said...Who's the lucky group that gets to work with the IAD guys?

The academy only gives up 5 coppers? There's no one in the academy. They can spear at least 10.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW YOU IDIOT.. WE HAVE 145 CPD RECRUITS AND DOZEN METROS, AND HAVE INSERVICE TRAINING FOR OFFICERS.. AND ONLY ABOUT 15 INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF TO COVER CLASSESS OTHER THAN RANGE AND PT... TAKE AWAY 3 OR 4 FOR FURLOUGHS AND OPY DEPLOYMENT AT THAT ONLY LEAVES BETWEEN 10-12 PEOPLE TO COVER CLASSES/SCENERIO BASED TRAINING... KNOW THE FACTS BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH